Martin Schepers creates a mental geology for the window of berlin-weekly. The window becomes a magnifying glass and an x-ray view into the disparate conditions of a place, the likes of which can be found almost everywhere today. Each place has its own history, made up of different layers of formation and use. In some places, the different layers are so contradictory that it becomes impossible to comprehend the place as a single location. It is a pure dialectic situation: that which appears to have been dismantled, transcended or removed has a much deeper impact on the place and the people living there than that which currently exists there. Which rituals does society develop in order to cover up and overlap the omnipresent older layers?
The visible practices of architecture and landscape design reveal in turn the inner processes of society. The processes by which places are overwritten reflect the processes by which we overwrite ourselves.